[2][3] In 1929, Jones studied at Grenoble University in France where he received a Certificate d’Etudes Francais (with special mention).
The following year Jones was awarded a fellowship to study at Middlebury University by the General Education Board.
Thereafter, he embarked upon a distinguished forty-year career as professor of French and the Fuller E. Callaway chair of the department of Modern Foreign Languages at Morehouse College.
In 1968, Jones received the Ford Foundation Sabbatical Research fellowship, during which he published several books and articles.
[3][5] In 1970, he was appointed by President Léopold Sédar Senghor as the honorary Consul to Senegal and in 1977 he became the editor of the College Language Association Journal (CLA).